Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is expected to play against Houston on Saturday, less than a week after sustaining a high-ankle sprain in a win over Cleveland, and he will likely have wide receiver Marquis Brown available for the first time in a regular-season game.

Chiefs coach Andy Reid said after a short practice Thursday that Mahomes had looked good moving around on his ailing ankle and “he’ll most likely end up playing.” That echoed what Mahomes professed earlier in the week, when the two-time NFL MVP said he planned to play unless the ankle hindered his ability to protect himself.

“He moved around pretty good,” said Reid, who acknowledged some concern about Mahomes’ availability immediately after the injury. “You’re always looking to make sure he can get out of the way, so there’s no further harm to him. That’s what I look at.

“We’re taking it day by day,” Reid added, “but he did look good out there.”

Saints: Kamara’s injury worse than thought

Alvin Kamara’s groin injury is “a little bit more significant” than the Saints initially thought, but it remains unclear how many of New Orleans’ final three games he’ll miss, coach Darren Rizzi said Thursday.

“He’s going to be week to week at the moment. And to be honest, it doesn’t look great for this week,” Rizzi said as his team prepared to visit the Green Bay Packers on Monday night. “We’ll kind of play that one by ear whether that’s going to be multiple weeks.”

Rizzi also pushed back on the notion that quarterback Derek Carr won’t play again this season and said top receiver Chris Olave, who has had two known concussions this season, entered a 21-day period in which he may practice without being counted against the active roster.

Rizzi said initial tests on Kamara indicated “it wasn’t really going to be that bad,” but that it is now viewed as “a little bit more significant, a little bit more missed time,” and the coach did not rule out surgery.

“There’s multiple opinions. There’s different ways to handle it,” Rizzi said. “All of us, medical staff, Alvin, everybody is just going to kind of take a deep breath here and kind of see what the best option is for him moving forward.

“Hopefully, we’ll be able to get him back here by the end of the year, but we’ll see what happens,” Rizzi said.

RFK Stadium site provision removed

A provision to transfer the land that is the site of the old RFK Stadium from the federal government to the District of Columbia is no longer included in Congress’ slimmed-down, short-term spending bill that lawmakers are racing to pass before a government shutdown.

The removal Thursday of that part of the bill is a loss for the NFL’s Washington Commanders, who were hoping to have the land available as an option to build a new stadium.

The revised bill came after President-elect Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk criticized and rejected the initial package, which included the RFK Stadium land remaining in control of the city for 99 years.